On 2/2/2018 17:32 PM, David Sommerseth wrote:
On 30/01/18 10:33, Samuli Seppänen wrote:
Hi,
Il 29/01/2018 20:09, Selva Nair ha scritto:
(Cross posting to users and devel)
Hi,
2.4.x needs to support, Vista, isn't it?
Good question and we have discussed in the past. Windows Vista is no
longer supported by Microsoft:
<https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet>
But then again, we do provide installers which work on Windows XP, which
is similarly EOL. So I guess we do support Windows Vista for the time being.
<https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/SupportedVersions#SupportedWindowsversions>
Vista is currently in full support for 2.4.4. WinXP is being phased out when
2.3 hits "Old stable support". But we can certainly discuss the value of
supporting Vista when Microsoft does not officially support it. I'd be in
favour of supporting only Win7 and newer.
Also compare this to our Linux support strategies. We dropped RHEL5 support
once Red Hat dropped the support officially too.
Artificially limiting what Windows version a binary release of a general
win32 program can be used on is a trend I I really wish would stop. Not
everyone has the luxury of using a newer OS version for various reasons.
I do understand there is a need to move on, but I know many people who
are still using Windows 2003 Server as well as XP for various legitimate
reasons. Iif a program is still capable of being built and run on an
older Windows if the right compiler configuration is used, then it
should be used. You don't have to provide full support, just allowing it
to run and putting a prominent disclaimer stating that support and
testing for XP/2003/Vista is very limited or non-existant should be enough.
I can understand completely dropping support for XP/2003/Vista if one is
making universal/metro or newer .NET programs, etc, but not really for
regular ol' win32 (winapi) based programs.
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